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Colchester market report CO
The CO (Colchester) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 272,115 sales registered with HM Land Registry in the CO postcode area (Colchester) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to August 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the typical home in the CO postcode area (Colchester) sold for £301,000 in 2026, the median of 3,101 registered sales, up 2% on five years earlier. The mean was £330,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,650 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 272,115 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
The figures for CO centred on Colchester run across 16 districts, the broad sweep by design. For a specific place, drop down to its district report below.
Where CO sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
Today's CO prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for CO is £301,000, taken from 3,101 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £330,800, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in CO
Measured by floor area, the last five years of CO sales average about £3,650 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts CO 6% above the country at large.
CO's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £301,000 | £301,000 | 3,101 |
| 2025 | £323,500 | £331,236 | 7,593 |
| 2024 | £310,000 | £329,594 | 6,911 |
| 2023 | £317,500 | £348,855 | 6,312 |
| 2022 | £315,000 | £369,373 | 8,713 |
| 2021 | £295,000 | £373,508 | 11,064 |
| 2020 | £277,500 | £360,062 | 7,171 |
| 2019 | £264,000 | £346,041 | 7,640 |
| 2018 | £260,000 | £346,585 | 8,315 |
| 2017 | £250,000 | £340,975 | 8,457 |
| 2016 | £225,000 | £314,777 | 8,922 |
| 2015 | £204,000 | £288,252 | 8,772 |
| 2014 | £185,000 | £262,455 | 8,932 |
| 2013 | £178,800 | £257,275 | 7,388 |
| 2012 | £175,000 | £257,578 | 6,249 |
| 2011 | £172,000 | £259,654 | 6,251 |
| 2010 | £170,000 | £266,604 | 6,148 |
| 2009 | £160,000 | £257,201 | 6,203 |
| 2008 | £170,000 | £278,666 | 5,726 |
| 2007 | £179,000 | £303,634 | 11,256 |
| 2006 | £170,000 | £295,098 | 11,418 |
| 2005 | £164,000 | £291,854 | 8,921 |
| 2004 | £155,000 | £281,510 | 10,456 |
| 2003 | £136,000 | £250,545 | 10,076 |
| 2002 | £115,000 | £216,372 | 11,446 |
| 2001 | £89,500 | £172,059 | 11,169 |
| 2000 | £78,000 | £153,075 | 10,312 |
| 1999 | £67,500 | £134,524 | 11,325 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 9,854 |
| 1997 | £56,000 | £114,845 | 10,301 |
| 1996 | £52,200 | £110,087 | 8,718 |
| 1995 | £51,000 | £110,866 | 6,995 |
In cash terms the typical CO home went from £51,000 in 1995 to £301,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 171%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 19% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CO median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2002 (+28.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−7.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −7.0% | −9.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.4% | −4.2% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +1.4% | −2.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.0% | −0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 36% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £400,000 against £157,000 for a flat, 2.5 times the price.
Median by property type, CO
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £400,000 | 1,147 | 97,401 |
| Semi-detached | £300,000 | 952 | 78,262 |
| Terraced | £257,500 | 594 | 57,168 |
| Flats | £157,000 | 408 | 39,284 |
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 5,656 CO sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 10,632 sales a year before the financial crisis and 6,526 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
The rental side of CO
The local authority for CO is Tendring, the local authority covering most of the CO area (parts fall under Colchester and Braintree, where rents differ), and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,051 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £757 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,585, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Tendring
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £301,000 median sold price, £1,051 a month is £12,612 a year, a gross yield of 4.2%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
Common questions on CO (Colchester)
How much did a house sell for in CO (Colchester)?
Are property prices falling in CO (Colchester)?
Is CO (Colchester) a good place to buy a house?
Are CO prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 19% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What is for sale in CO right now
Everything above is what homes in CO sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 603 homes on the market right now, from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 35% above the CO median sold price.
Set against 5,656 registered sales in the last twelve months, the 603 homes on the market here are roughly 6 weeks of supply at last year's pace, and more in reality, since only agents who publish to HomesIndex are counted. That is a thin shelf: buyers here are choosing from little, and a well priced home is unlikely to wait long.
Of everything listed here, 11% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Braddy Court, Kelvedon, Colchester, Essex
- 30 Church Street, Lavenham, Sudbury, Suffolk
- Swan Court, Mistley, Manningtree, Essex
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every CO home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
When homes in CO change hands
March is when CO changes hands most (11.0% of the 40,593 sales dated 2021 to 2025); January is the quiet end at 6.7%. The gap between the two is wide enough to plan around: completion follows the agreed sale by weeks, so the busiest month for completions points to deals done earlier, and a seller wanting several bidders should list ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 2,722 | 6.7% |
| February | 3,203 | 7.9% |
| March | 4,445 | 11.0% |
| April | 2,738 | 6.7% |
| May | 2,894 | 7.1% |
| June | 4,250 | 10.5% |
| July | 3,124 | 7.7% |
| August | 3,430 | 8.4% |
| September | 4,007 | 9.9% |
| October | 3,234 | 8.0% |
| November | 3,219 | 7.9% |
| December | 3,327 | 8.2% |
Bedroom by bedroom: CO prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the CO area. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £270,000 | £322,000 (+19%) | £375,000 (+16%) | £450,000 (+20%) | £565,000 (+26%) |
| Semi-detached | £235,000 | £270,000 (+15%) | £315,000 (+17%) | £365,000 (+16%) | £425,000 (+16%) |
| Terraced | £190,000 | £240,000 (+26%) | £270,000 (+13%) | £330,000 (+22%) | £390,000 (+18%) |
| Flat | £133,250 | £179,000 (+34%) | £230,000 (+28%) | £291,000 (+27%) | £390,000 (+34%) |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the CO area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
CO area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
District by district
The area medians above hide a lot. Here is every CO district with enough sales to measure, dearest first; each links to its own full report.
| District | Median (2026) | 5-year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| CO5 Tiptree, Kelvedon | £375,000 | +0% | 223 |
| CO6 Coggeshall, Earls Colne | £375,000 | -1% | 193 |
| CO3 Lexden, Fordham Heath | £336,000 | +2% | 241 |
| CO7 Brightlingsea, Wivenhoe | £324,500 | -2% | 236 |
| CO4 Greenstead, Highwoods | £320,000 | +3% | 318 |
| CO9 Halstead | £320,000 | +7% | 181 |
| CO10 Sudbury, Clare | £320,000 | +3% | 337 |
| CO13 Frinton-on-Sea | £317,500 | +0% | 124 |
| CO8 Bures, Alphamstone | £315,000 | -18% | 13 |
| CO11 Manningtree, Lawford | £310,000 | +0% | 101 |
| CO2 Old Heath, Berechurch | £275,000 | +10% | 226 |
| CO14 Walton-on-the-Naze | £266,000 | +9% | 65 |
| CO16 Clacton-on-Sea, St Osyth | £265,000 | -9% | 179 |
| CO12 Harwich, Dovercourt | £235,000 | +2% | 173 |
| CO1 Colchester | £230,000 | +4% | 126 |
| CO15 Clacton-on-Sea, Jaywick | £230,000 | +5% | 365 |
Selling a home in CO? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CO, open the average prices map and zoom from the CO shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CO sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CO. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual CO sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.